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MegaETH mainnet to go live Feb. 9 in major test of ‘real-time’ Ethereum scaling
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MegaETH mainnet to go live Feb. 9 in major test of ‘real-time’ Ethereum scaling
This follows its October 2025 $450 million token sale that was heavily oversubscribed.
By Margaux Nijkerk, AI Boost|Edited by Nikhilesh De
Jan 28, 2026, 6:22 p.m.
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What to know:
- MegaETH, the much-watched high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network, announced that its public mainnet will go live Feb. 9, marking a major milestone for a project that has gained a lot of attention in the scaling landscape.
- MegaETH positions itself as a “real-time” blockchain for Ethereum, designed to deliver ultra-low latency and massive transaction throughput.
MegaETH, the much-watched high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network, announced that its public mainnet will go live Feb. 9, marking a major milestone for a project that has gained a lot of attention in the scaling landscape.
MegaETH positions itself as a “real-time” blockchain for Ethereum, designed to deliver ultra-low latency and massive transaction throughput.
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The project has attracted significant attention and capital over the past year. MegaETH has been backed by prominent figures in the Ethereum ecosystem, like Ethereum co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin, and has raised millions of dollars to date. Most recently in October 2025, it completed a $450 million token sale that was heavily oversubscribed, CoinDesk previously reported.
That sale, which offered roughly 5% of the protocol’s 10 billion MEGA supply, saw thousands of investors rush into allocations within minutes, underscoring intense demand for next-generation scaling infrastructure.
The project is being developed by MegaLabs which raised $20 million in a seed round led by Dragonfly in 2024, pitching MegaETH as a new kind of real-time blockchain rather than a traditional scaling solution.
MegaLabs has said that the protocol is designed for applications that need near-instant transaction speeds, such as trading platforms, games and other consumer-facing crypto apps — an area where Ethereum has historically struggled during periods of heavy use.
Read more: MegaETH Raises $450M in Oversubscribed Token Sale Backed by Ethereum Founders
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